20 Things You Didn't Know About Jackie Brown

Despite both the film and novel having a fairly complicated double-cross at its core, one would expect that the mechanics of the operation were of the utmost importance. It would be critical that the scenes in which money is being changed hands, plans go awry, people end up getting killed and others walk away clean, that the nuances of just how Brown would escape with the cash be clear.

But no, Leonard had handily worked all that out in the novel. Instead, Tarantino focused more attention on the in-between scenes where little plot is pushed forward. He says he looks at it as a "hangout" film like the kind he grew up with. He loved Rio Bravo, not for the big action scenes but the moments leading up to the siege where the characters are just hanging out.

Tarantino has since perfected this kind of movie, peppering long stretches of Once Upon a Time...In Hollywood with scenes in which characters just watch themselves on television and drink beer. What sounds like a chore to watch actually makes the viewer want to be there.

That's what Tarantino remembers most revisiting Jackie Brown - those scenes in Samuel L. Jackson's house in which weed is inhaled, movies are watched and AK-47s are discussed at length.

"Jackie Brown is better the second time," said Tarantino, "and I think it's even better the third and the fourth time. Maybe even the first time we see it, we go, 'Why are we doing all this hanging out? Why can't we get to more of the plot?' But, now the second time you see it, and the third time you see it, you're not thinking about the plot anymore. You're waiting for the hangout scenes."